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04 Sep 2012

Ta'Rea Campbell

Ta'Rea Campbell will be a nun on the run in the national tour of the Tony Award-nominated musical Sister Act, which will launch Oct. 2 in Toronto at the Ed Mirvish Theatre.

Campbell (The Book of Mormon, The Lion King) will take on the role of Deloris Van Cartier, an outrageous nightclub singer who goes into hiding at a convent after witnessing a crime. The film is based on the popular 1992 film of the same title. Whoopi Goldberg, Stage Entertainment and Troika Entertainment produce the tour.

Campbell will be joined by original Broadway cast member Kingsley Leggs (The Color Purple), who will repeat his work as Curtis Jackson. The cast also features Hollis Resnik (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Les Miserables) as Mother Superior, Lael Van Keuren (Sister Act on Broadway) as Mary Robert and Richard Pruitt (42nd Street, White Christmas) as Monsignor O'Hara.

Toronto performances will continue through Nov. 4, with stops to follow in Los Angeles, Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Seattle and Denver.

Sister Act has a score by Tony and Academy Award winner Alan Menken (Newsies, Leap of Faith, Beauty and the Beast) and Glenn Slater (Leap of Faith, Love Never Dies). The musical premiered on Broadway March 24, 2011, at the Broadway Theatre after a 2009 London debut. It ended its Broadway run Aug. 26 after 561 regular performances.

The musical has a book by Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane (The Little Dog Laughed, Lysistrata Jones) and Emmy Award winners Cheri and Bill Steinkellner.

Michael Kosarin serves as musical supervisor, with dance music arrangements by Mark Hummel, orchestrations by Doug Besterman and electronic music by Andy Barrett. Music director is Brent-Alan Huffman.

Sister Act received five 2011 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Book of a Musical, Best Actress in a Musical (Patina Miller) and Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Victoria Clark).